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ReadyNas Duo USB Share - Write-Protected
Hi All,
I am looking for some help. I have a Netgear ReadyNas NV+ running perfectly. I also have a Netgear ReadyNas Duo running perfectly. I have a Western Digital 2TB USB drive which I have plugged into the Duo and it sees it perfectly and I can format it to whichever file system I see fit. My problems then start. I am unable to write to the USB drive even though I can see it in Windows & Mac operating systems.
The ReadyNas shows up the correct size of the USB volume, the name of the share is correct but I cannot write to it. The odd thing is that when I first formatted it to Ext3 (I have also tried NTFS & FAT) was that I was able to transfer a large set of files onto it. I am now unable to add anything else onto it.
I have the following permissions enabled.
CIFS - Read/Write Enabled with 'Allow guest access' ticked
AFP - Read/Write Enabled with 'Allow guest access' ticked
HTTP/S - Read/Write Enabled
In Advanced options I am unable to change the share folder owner and group to anything other than root. I am not sure if this is the issue or not but I had the same symptom on FAT & NTFS.I have 'Grant rename and delete privileges to non-owner of files' ticked.
I have exhausted most online searches and forums with this query so this is why I am posting it. I hope someone will be able to point me in the right direction as it is much better for me to have the USB drive plugged into my NAS.
Thanks in advance
I am looking for some help. I have a Netgear ReadyNas NV+ running perfectly. I also have a Netgear ReadyNas Duo running perfectly. I have a Western Digital 2TB USB drive which I have plugged into the Duo and it sees it perfectly and I can format it to whichever file system I see fit. My problems then start. I am unable to write to the USB drive even though I can see it in Windows & Mac operating systems.
The ReadyNas shows up the correct size of the USB volume, the name of the share is correct but I cannot write to it. The odd thing is that when I first formatted it to Ext3 (I have also tried NTFS & FAT) was that I was able to transfer a large set of files onto it. I am now unable to add anything else onto it.
I have the following permissions enabled.
CIFS - Read/Write Enabled with 'Allow guest access' ticked
AFP - Read/Write Enabled with 'Allow guest access' ticked
HTTP/S - Read/Write Enabled
In Advanced options I am unable to change the share folder owner and group to anything other than root. I am not sure if this is the issue or not but I had the same symptom on FAT & NTFS.I have 'Grant rename and delete privileges to non-owner of files' ticked.
I have exhausted most online searches and forums with this query so this is why I am posting it. I hope someone will be able to point me in the right direction as it is much better for me to have the USB drive plugged into my NAS.
Thanks in advance
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- I don't think QA has acquired one of these yet. Can you reproduce the problem and send me the logs using the info in my sig?
- Would you like to compare the logs from my configuration? I get the exact same error.
- Same here. Asks for admin name and password, which doesn't work. The temporary fix Netgear provided 1-2 years ago doesn't work. Changing to Guest does work briefly, then it locks up again. Netgear promised a more permanent fix to this then, but in the 18 months or so since, nothing from them. This is not a new issue. I am left with a brand new Duo which is next to useless, as I can't back up the files from it.
Can Netgear please resolve this ASAP? - Please reproduce the problem and send me the logs and a config backup of share access and services using the info in my sig.
- I'm still seeing the problem. The workaround is to start the backup right after the USB drive is connected and before it powers down.
- Ah, a USB disk sleep timer. Hook the disk up to a PC and use the vendor utility to disable the sleep timer on the disk. Hope this helps.
If the vendor utility can't disable the sleep timer then there may not be much that can be done.
Edit: I guess it depends too if ewok can get something to be done on the ReadyNAS side to help things or not. - I wonder if something here might be useful to the developers? Seems like disk spindown is a typical problem:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/Spi ... BHarddisks
http://code.google.com/p/spindown/ mdgm wrote: Ah, a USB disk sleep timer. Hook the disk up to a PC and use the vendor utility to disable the sleep timer on the disk. Hope this helps.
I have a Seagate FreeAgent drive, and approach suggested above seems to be working for me.
I agree with the previous poster, in doing a bit of research on this topic, I found a lot of discussion of unix and usb drives and problems related to spindown, as well as some potential solutions. Unfortunately, all the solutions made reference to files or directories that don't seem to be present on my Duo. It seems likely that there's some OS level setting that could fix this problem, but it would take someone who knows a lot more about unix than I do to figure it out.
--Peter- I posted this note on another thread, but just to close the loop here, I am copying my note...
I wanted to point out that I am in the process of upgrading to a Pro6. I am running RAIDiator 4.2.17.
I am currently playing with the device, understanding permissions and backup configurations. During my discovery, I can report that the USB spin down issue appears to be fixed. I am not sure if this is due to hardware, linux distribution or something that Netgear addressed. But I connected the same HDD that fails in my NV, formatted it and then completed a backup. I leave the configuration alone, for various amounts of time up to 12 hours, and whenever I start a backup to the USB it seems to work.
Would it be possible to get this code into the NV/Sparc line?
Thanks!
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